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Korea, syria, iraq, yemen, somalia, south china sea. these are real powder kegs with a short fuse burning. before we make decisions on being, quote, presidential, we need to see how it plays out. >> do journalists have a tendency, a natural tendency to rally around the flag in moments of crisis and military action? is that detrimental? >> they do have that tendency and we should fight it. rallying around the flag doesnt mean rallying around a military strike. rallying around the flag is whats be...

Social media, satellite tv, the internet. people -- saudis know whats going on in the world in a way they never did. and the more the king has tried to inch things in the direction of progress, the more the conservatives pull in the opposite direction. so i think the divisions in society are greater, number one. number two, the information is greater. and number three, the royal family, the band of brothers, is running out and they are going to have to make a generational change. and a lot of sa...

Accommodation. >> john: jonah you said in break you thought different outcome of greeces elections over the weekend might have been better. why? >> i think angela merkel was secretly disappointed by the results in greece. if the left wing party had won and rejected the bail-out greece could say well, were done with you. go away now. now there will be a long contentious negotiation about renegotiating the terms that puts her on the hot seat. greek is in economic freefall, economic catastrophe. th...

Thud. i dont know if you can tell that was governor haley offering seasons greetings before she gets on that elevator and the door slams shut. but just in case it was, merry christmas to you too, governor. we are understandably fixated this year on the presidential race, on 2012 politics, on who the republican nominee will be to run against president obama, and a lot depends on the answer to that question. that sort of politics is one of the ways we figure out where we are as a nation, what at l...

Gets on that elevator and the door slams shut. but just in case it was, merry christmas to you too, governor. we are understandably fixated this year on the presidential race, on 2012 politics, on who the republican nominee will be to run against president obama, and a lot depends on the answer to that question. that sort of politics is one of the ways we figure out where we are as a nation, what at least one of the parties in our two-party system is thinking about the important issues that our ...

Tick tick, ahead of the scoop, and boom, at once scoop calms out, he has become a very reliable provider of stress and anticipation when it comes to almost all of the new developments in this scandal that has enveloped this young presidency. every time a scandal, tick, tick, tick, tick and within hours, a matter of time it pays off. every time. tonight, though, ben wittes gave it up. said hes going to stop doing it. okay, folks, im officially retiring the tick tick tick thing. he said as to ever...

He actually started the fuse burning on it a few days ago. a few days ago it was actually all caps. he said the all caps on the tick, tick, tick that time were in honor of the expected magnitude of the detonation. it was june 23rd. nothing happened that day. three days later, monday this week, he kept it going. a few minutes after that, he clarified, he says this, three things, number one, not all tick, tick, ticks are related to james comey, who ben wittes is known to be friends with. number tw...

Give the cop your name, i just gave them the address. >> its like in this direction, doing it very badly. it will get you in more trouble. the reality is, heidi is laughing about. theyre up in arms over this. in fact today when he said this, it was the first confirmation of the fact that he had blown israels cover. hes trying to calm things down and hes inflaming them. >> fuse burning from both ends. one is the cover up stuff, firing and pushing around all the top intel people. the head of -- th...

That was governor haley offering seasons greetings before she gets on that elevator and the door slams shut. but just in case it was, merry christmas to you too, governor. we are understandably fixated this year on the presidential race, on 2012 politics, on who the republican nominee will be to run against president obama, and a lot depends on the answer to that question. that sort of politics is one of the ways we figure out where we are as a nation, what at least one of the parties in our two...